I've got some tenants in my rental that are generally pretty good.
However, yesterday, they messaged me, fairly urgently saying that the oven had stopped working and wanting me to arrange a repair man asap.
They story was that the top elements were working fine, the side powerpoints worked, but the interior oven was not working. As they were good I took their word for it.
I was thinking fuse, but as im not electrically minded, I organised an appliance repair man to come around to fix the problem the next day.
He turns up, takes one look at it , turns the timer back on, and walla its working again (they had the timer off).
The technician is going to charge us his minimum callout fee (probably around 60$ i'd say).
My question thus is, can we charge the tenants for this, as it was essentially their fault I had to organise a tradesman for no reason?
However, yesterday, they messaged me, fairly urgently saying that the oven had stopped working and wanting me to arrange a repair man asap.
They story was that the top elements were working fine, the side powerpoints worked, but the interior oven was not working. As they were good I took their word for it.
I was thinking fuse, but as im not electrically minded, I organised an appliance repair man to come around to fix the problem the next day.
He turns up, takes one look at it , turns the timer back on, and walla its working again (they had the timer off).
The technician is going to charge us his minimum callout fee (probably around 60$ i'd say).
My question thus is, can we charge the tenants for this, as it was essentially their fault I had to organise a tradesman for no reason?
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